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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Goodland, KS

June 23, 2000Graham County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2000, 12:09 AM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 2000, 12:09 AM CDT (05:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2000, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Graham County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3087 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1413 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

698 
WUUS53 KGLD 230509
SVRGLD
KSC065-230545-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1209 AM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN GRAHAM COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT

* AT 1209 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HILL CITY...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BOGUE AT 1220 AM CDT
  NICODEMUS AT 1225 AM CDT

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN
OBSERVED OR DETECTED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM...MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS
THE ROAD.

$$

ENTWISTLE

LAT...LON 3940 9999 3925 9988 3930 9961 3956 9960
          3956 10003

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 22, 3:29 PM CDT, 8 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 3:29 PM CDT, 8 hours 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
229 PM MDT THU JUN 22 2000

...TEMPS AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES REMAIN CHALLENGES THROUGHOUT THIS
FORECAST PACKAGE...

ACTIVITY BEGINNING TO FIRE UP IN EAST CO. AT SAME TIME RIDGE HAS
BUILT CONSIDERABLY SINCE YESTERDAY (+90 METERS AT LBF AND +50 METERS
AT DEN). VORT MAX IN NE NM AND SE CO COMBINED WITH TEMPS IN 90S AND
DPS IN 50S AND 60S FIGHTING THE RIDGE. QUESTION IS WHEN AND WHERE
WILL MAJOR BREAK-THRUS OCCUR. MAY GET BOX LATER.

MODELS SIMILAR BUT ETA DID BETTER AT INITIATION ALOFT...SPECIFICALLY
IN NW TX AREA. WILL GO AGAIN WITH ETA. MODELS NOT MUCH DIFFERENT
OVER 48 HRS AT SYNOPTIC LEVELS BUT SMALL/MESO S/WS CONSIDERABLY
DIFFERENT WITH RESPECT TO TIMING AND PLACEMENT. CONFIDENCE LOW WITH
RESPECT TO TIMING OF ALL S/WS. AGAIN AM ORIENTING FCST AROUND
ETA.

AS IT DID YESTERDAY ETA SHOWING STRENGTHENING S/W MOVING INTO CWA
TONIGHT FROM WEST...MOVING VERY SLOWLY ACROSS CWA AND NOT EXITING
UNTIL NEAR NOON. SINCE UPPER WIND FIELD SO WEAK AND EXPECT LLJET TO
SET-UP AHEAD OF DRYLINE THINK CHANCE IS GOOD THAT ONCE TSRAS SETUP
IN WEST KS TONIGHT SOME MAY CONTINUE ALMOST THRU THE NIGHT. POSSIBLY
INTO FRI AM IN THE EAST. WILL GO ABOVE GUID ON POPS IN EASTERN
2/3RDS OF CWA. NEAR GUID ON TEMPS (ACTUALLY NEAR GUID ON TEMPS THRU
ENTIRE FCST PD).

FRI UPPER RIDGE APPEARS TO WEAKEN SOME AND ANOTHER VORT MAX
INDICATED TO MOVE EAST ACROSS SE CO/SW KS/OK AND TX PANHANDLES. HAVE
GONE WITH SIMILAR POPS FRI AND FRI NIGHT AS RH AND PWS REMAIN VERY
HIGH BUT CONFIDENCE IN POSITION OF TRIGGER IS NOT HIGH. THINK
WATCHING WV/IR CHANNELS FOR VORT MAX POSITS MAY BE KEY TO ACTIVITY
FCSTING NEXT DAY OR SO.

COOL FRONT MOVES SLOWLY INTO AREA LATE SAT BUT APPEARS TO BE GETTING
WEAKER AND TIMING MORE DEBATABLE (WHEN VIEWING SEVERAL MODELS). HAVE
DROPPED POPS SOME SAT AM BUT EXPECT THEM TO INCREASE SAT NITE/SUN AS
FRONT MEANDERS AROUND AREA OF SOUTHERN NEB TO NORTHERN OK.

IN EXTENDED MRF POPS STILL HARD TO DEFEND...ESPECIALLY SUN AND MON
AS MRF GRAPHICS SHOW SFC HIGH IN AREA AND RIDGING GROWING ALOFT. ECM
AT SAME TIME SHOWS WESTERLIES MOVING SOUTH WITH SEVERAL S/WS COMING
ACROSS AREA. HAVE KEPT CHANCE OF TSRAS THROUGHOUT EXTENDED WITH
LITTLE CHANGE IN TEMPS UNTIL MODELS BEGIN TO CLARIFY.

.GLD...NONE.

RJC

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 22, 8:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
753 PM MDT THU JUN 22 2000

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0630 PM    HALE                      CO   .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   YUMA                           REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0630 PM    HALE                      CO   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/00   YUMA                           REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0630 PM    HALE                      CO   WIND DAMAGE
06/22/00   YUMA                           NUMEROUS 1-2 INCH
                                          DIAMETER TREE LIMBS DOWN

0636 PM    3 W ST FRANCIS            KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   CHEYENNE

0640 PM    2 E HALE                  CO   65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/00   YUMA

0640 PM    2 E HALE                  CO   .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   YUMA

0657 PM    5 N ST FRANCIS            KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   CHEYENNE

0712 PM    1 W ST FRANCIS            KS   .88 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   CHEYENNE

0712 PM    10 SW LEOTI               KS   1 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   WICHITA

TABER

ZCZC TOPMTTHYK AP2
SXUS43 KGLD 230154
METAR KHYK 230154Z 26003KT 32/00 RMK AO1 T03170000
N

Local storm report, Jun 22, 8:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
754 PM MDT THU JUN 22 2000

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0735 PM    10 SW LEOTI               KS   1 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   WICHITA

N

Local storm report, Jun 22, 10:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
936 PM MDT THU JUN 22 2000

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0810 PM    9 SSE BIRD CITY           KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   CHEYENNE                       REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0825 PM    10 SE BIRD CITY           KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   CHEYENNE                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0827 PM    6 NE EDSON                KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   SHERMAN                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0830 PM    12 S MC DONALD            KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   RAWLINS                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0900 PM    12 NE COLBY               KS   .88 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   THOMAS                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0900 PM    11 N COLBY                KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   THOMAS                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0900 PM    16 S ATWOOD               KS   .88 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   RAWLINS                        REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

0924 PM    9 W HOXIE                 KS   1 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   SHERIDAN                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0925 PM    7 W HOXIE                 KS   1 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   SHERIDAN                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0929 PM    9 S OBERLIN               KS   1 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   DECATUR                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

N

Local storm report, Jun 22, 11:24 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1024 PM MDT THU JUN 22 2000

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0915 PM    12 S ATWOOD               KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/00   RAWLINS                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

N

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	64 min
Jun 22, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	47 min
Jun 22, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	67 min
Jun 22, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	66 min
Jun 22, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	30 min
Jun 22, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	57 min
Jun 22, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	66 min
Jun 22, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Sheridan	62 min
Jun 22, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	49 min
Jun 22, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	61 min
Jun 22, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Sheridan	50 min
Jun 23, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	57 min
Jun 23, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	59 min
Jun 23, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	57 min
Jun 23, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	59 min
Jun 23, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	67 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.